Now I like the way that alleys, streets and even entries are preserved while all around them major redevelopments tear down old buildings and replace them with new.
And the covered entry that leads from Wood Street to the yard of the Pack Horse pub is just such an example.
Now if you go looking for the entry the chances are that you will miss it because for certain parts of the day and night the entry is closed off by a door which you might just assume is one of the doors that leads into the Wood Street Mission.
And if you went looking for the Pack House Yard you won’t find that either.
The Pack Horse or the Free Mason’s Tavern as it was sometimes called was on Bridge Street.
The building is still there but now goes under the name of the Bridge which given its location on Bridge Street makes perfect sense.
It’s a long thin place and at the back there is a door into the yard, go through the yard and you will enter a tiled passage way which leads out onto Wood Street.
And there you have it, retrace your steps and you walk into the yard of the old Pack Horse and by degree into the pub and out on to Bridge Street.
For those who like just a bit of atmosphere the yard also has an old fashioned lamps post.
All of that said I know the passageway is not a street but if you collect the slightly unusual this one is it.
The passageway was there in the 1790s and it seems that successive building development included it in the layout of new properties, and the Wood Street Mission which still occupies the site was no different.
And that as they say is that.
Location; Manchester
Pictures; the passageway 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
Now if you go looking for the entry the chances are that you will miss it because for certain parts of the day and night the entry is closed off by a door which you might just assume is one of the doors that leads into the Wood Street Mission.
And if you went looking for the Pack House Yard you won’t find that either.
The Pack Horse or the Free Mason’s Tavern as it was sometimes called was on Bridge Street.
The building is still there but now goes under the name of the Bridge which given its location on Bridge Street makes perfect sense.
And there you have it, retrace your steps and you walk into the yard of the old Pack Horse and by degree into the pub and out on to Bridge Street.
For those who like just a bit of atmosphere the yard also has an old fashioned lamps post.
All of that said I know the passageway is not a street but if you collect the slightly unusual this one is it.
The passageway was there in the 1790s and it seems that successive building development included it in the layout of new properties, and the Wood Street Mission which still occupies the site was no different.
Location; Manchester
Pictures; the passageway 2016 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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